21. This experiment cannot be made with a group of children for obvious reasons. 22. From an address on "The Cultivation of the Imagination." 23. "The House in the Wood" (Grimm), is another instance of triumph for the youngest child. 24. See list of stories under this heading. 25. To be found in Andrew Lang's "The Violet Fairy Book." 26. To be found in Jacob's "More English Fairy Tales." 27. From the "Thabagata." 28. For selection of suitable stories among legends of the Saints, see list of stories under the heading, "Stories from the Lives of the Saints." 29. These words have been set most effectively to music by Miss Margaret Ruthven Lang. 30. From "The Use of Fairy Tales," in "Moral Instruction of Children". 31. See Chapter on Questions asked by Teachers. 32. From "Talks to Teachers," page 93. 33. An excellent account of this is to be found in "The Song of Roland," by Arthur Way and Frederic Spender. 34. Njal's Burning, from "The Red Book of Romance," by Andrew Lang. 35. From "Studies of Childhood." 36. England. 37. From "The Lockerbie Book," by James Whitcomb Riley, copyright, 1911. Used by special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merril Company. 38. From "Virginibus Puerisque." 39. See "Long Bow Story;" "John and the Pig." 40. Published by George Allen & Co. 41. This is even a higher spirit than that shown in the advice given in the "Agamemnon" (speaking of the victor's attitude after the taking of Troy): "Yea, let no craving for forbidden gain Bid conquerors yield before the darts of greed." 42. It is curious to find that the story of Puss-in-Boots in its variants is sometimes presented with a moral, sometimes without. In the Valley of the Ganges it has _none_. In Cashmere it has one moral, in Zanzibar another. 43. From Hans Christian Andersen, in "Childhood in Literature and Art." 44. "Sartor Resartus," Book III, page 218. 45. From "Childhood in Literature and Art." 46. See "Eastern Stories and Fables," published by Routledge. 47. See Chapter I. 48. In this matter I have, in England, the support of Dr. Kimmins, Chief Inspector of Education in the London County Council, who is strongly opposed to the immediate reproduction of stories. 49. These remarks refer only to the illustrations of stories told. Whether children should be encouraged to self-expression in drawing (quite apart form reproducing in one medium what has been conveyed to them in another), is too large a question to deal with in this special work on story-telling. 50. I give the following story, quoted by Professor Ker in his Romanes lecture, 1906, as an encouragement to those who develop the art of story-telling. 51. The melody to be crooned at first and to grow louder at each incident. 52. "The punishment that can most affect Merfolk is to restrict their freedom. And this is how the Queen of the Sea punished the Nixie of our tale."